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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL): Today's Featured Leisure Laggard

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Royal Caribbean Cruises (
RCL) pushed the Leisure industry lower today making it today's featured Leisure laggard. The industry as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, Royal Caribbean Cruises fell 39 cents (-1.1%) to $35.22 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.5 million shares of Royal Caribbean Cruises exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of two million shares. The stock ranged in price between $35.09-$35.70 after having opened the day at $35.52 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $35.61. Other companies within the Leisure industry that declined today were:
Bowl America Incorporated (
BWL.A), down 5.6%,
Monarch Casino & Resort (
MCRI), down 4.7%,
Empire Resorts (
NYNY), down 4.5%, and
Yum Brands (
YUM), down 4.2%.

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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. operates in the cruise vacation industry worldwide. It owns five cruise brands, which comprise Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, Azamara Club Cruises, and CDF Croisieres de France. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a market cap of $7.81 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.5, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 5.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are eight analysts that rate Royal Caribbean Cruises a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Royal Caribbean Cruises as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.